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3rd Wave Capitalism: Radical business innovation begins anew

By John Julius Sviokla | Published September 20, 2010

Last week, on Thursday night September 16, 2010, I had the good fortune of speaking to the Society for Information Management’s (SIM’s) Boston chapter about the implications of social media.  You can get the slides here. The core of the talk was the idea.

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Radical Continuity: What any retailer can learn from Nordstrom

By John Julius Sviokla | Published September 1, 2010

I’m coming to believe every good is a convenience good.  A recent New York Times article reported that Nordstrom has integrated their in-store inventory with their online supply, meaning that anyone can get access to the entire inventory from any “location” — a physical.

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Disruptive Thinking: 5 attributes to consider

By John Julius Sviokla | Published August 7, 2010

Every once in a while you see something which is such a fresh solution to a problem you just say ahhhh.  Check out this skytrain/bus idea about how to float about the traffic in China and create efficient transport. It got me thinking as.

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The Integration of Marketplace & Marketspace: The killer app for healthcare?

By John Julius Sviokla | Published August 3, 2010

In our recent Diamond Digital IQ study, we found that only 3% of healthcare companies were focused on innovation as their primary strategic emphasis. You can empathize that 2009 was a year where many participants in the healthcare cluster were just trying to survive,.

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The Power of Collective Risk Absorption

By John Julius Sviokla | Published July 27, 2010

Every time there is an innovation in risk absorption the economy flourishes. The invention of the shared stock company by the Dutch and the English allowed merchants to take advantage of risks and ventures that the crown would never have had the stomach or.

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Social Killer Apps and the Humanization of the Marketspace

By John Julius Sviokla | Published July 24, 2010

Today’s New York Times article joins new stories about Zynga (formally Zynga Game Network), the maker of FarmVille, MafiaWars and other popular games on Facebook.  Mark Pincus, the 44 year old founder is estimated to be Silicon Valley’s newest paper billionaire.  Not only is his.

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7 Non-traditional Barriers to Innovation

By John Julius Sviokla | Published July 15, 2010

A friend of mine recently asked me: What do you think are the biggest barriers to innovation?  If you look at the literature on innovation many folks cite insufficient support from the CEO, inadequate funding, the pressure of quarterly earning, a culture of following,.

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The Battle for the World’s Attention: Facebook’s social graph versus Google’s page link

By John Julius Sviokla | Published July 14, 2010

Google’s recently reported $100-200 million investment in the company Zynga, the very popular online game company, is their latest attempt to finally get their social media strategy off the ground and take on Facebook. Google is vitally interested in social media for at least.

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YouTube & The 48th Anniversary of the Visual Global Village

By John Julius Sviokla | Published July 10, 2010

On July 10, 1962, Telstar I was launched, the first communications satellite to transmit live television across the Atlantic.  The term Global Village was coined at about the same time by Marshall McLuhan in his books The Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic Man.

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Innovations in Control: Do you have the right cost of capital for today’s environment?

By John Julius Sviokla | Published July 9, 2010

This post is co-author Joseph Calandro, Jr., author of Applied Value Investing (NY: McGraw-Hill, 2009). One of the most important and overlooked innovations in business are the innovations in internal controls and measurement.  The duPont company famously invented their duPont formula which helped their.

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